2018 has been the worst year in forums history: there have been only 288 new threads, and 3886 new posts! Compare that to 2014, when we had 1513 new threads and 17746 new posts- yikes....

So where does this leave us?

Mage Wars, the game, is not dead- as long as people will play, the game will still be considered "alive". However, for all intents an purposes, the community is fractured and nearly non-existent. The last 3 years of arguing about it doesn't change the fact that the development of Mage Wars Arena is done and Arcane Wonders have let it go, and nothing the community does will change anything about it. Arcane Wonders has simply killed it, while leaving it on "life support" with the Academy expansions. It doesn't help either that community management is non-existent and that all the information we receive comes from online merchants instead of the actual company making these products.

In regards to these forums, I think that it's fairly straight forward: this site is basically used for Mage Wars, and as such the survival of these forums are based on the success of Mage Wars- that is fairly clear considering how most of these senior members of these forums haven't posted for months or even years. And as the Dice Tower Essential games have been quite bland, there hasn't been any activity on that part of the forums- basically abandoned for all intents and purposes. The community now relies on 5-10 people who lurk and sometimes post, with no clear future in sight.

These numbers will only decrease into the new year. Thanks to everyone for having made the last few years so engaging and interesting. However, continuing on posting on these forums is like feeding hay to a dead horse: you are just ignoring the cold hard truth

Still holding out hope that one day they’ll publish (a) Lost Grimoire v2 (remaining promos, maybe a few more Trample or other interesting cards; perhaps more dragons?), (b) alt-Forcemaster vs alt-Wizard (surely some development work was done for this expansion years ago), (c) a “mounts” expansion (as cut from Paladin vs Siren), (d) Battlegrounds 2: Arch-enemy (same comment as (b)), and (e) an Elementalist for Arena - even if just the mage art card & abilities.

Still holding out hope that one day they’ll publish (a) Lost Grimoire v2 (remaining promos, maybe a few more Trample or other interesting cards; perhaps more dragons?), (b) alt-Forcemaster vs alt-Wizard (surely some development work was done for this expansion years ago), (c) a mounts” expansion (as cut from Paladin vs Siren), (d) Battlegrounds 2: Arch-enemy (same comment as (b)), and (e) an Elementalist for Arena - even if just the mage art card & abilities.

A Lost Grimoire v2 with the remaining promos and an expansion with a pure frost mage would do it for me. That would be amazing. I was kind of late to the party and was first introduced to arena this year in september, but I was hooked instantly. Without a doubt the best game I have ever played.

yep, mage wars has huge design space, it's a same it will remain a space by the way things look.

my opinion on academy has changed since last year, which i thought it was a waste,because they really do dig different playstyles with the mages ,even if many of the cards are bad in arena,others are great. so i started buying into it. (wont buy them twice though, that's a rip off )

but yeah, pretty dissapointed with how the things have turned out, since this is in my top 3 games (the other is war of the ring ,and netrunner, which is not supported by the makers anymore (god's will.)

i do lurk, and log into the forum often, to see if anything interesting is posted, but since it's empty most of the type i dont have anything to post aswell : )

maybe if everything goes great for the company they will restore mage wars arena to it's former glory, even for us the little niche market that exists but loves it

maybe if everything goes great for the company they will restore mage wars arena to it's former glory, even for us the little niche market that exists but loves it

If they keep on releasing games like "Speechless" then no, I'd say that they're going to have to shut down in 5 years time. No company can survive with so much momentum lost and wasted on utter nonsense

Still holding out hope that one day they’ll publish (a) Lost Grimoire v2 (remaining promos, maybe a few more Trample or other interesting cards; perhaps more dragons?), (b) alt-Forcemaster vs alt-Wizard (surely some development work was done for this expansion years ago), (c) a “mounts” expansion (as cut from Paladin vs Siren), (d) Battlegrounds 2: Arch-enemy (same comment as (b)), and (e) an Elementalist for Arena - even if just the mage art card & abilities.

It's pretty much confirmed that there is no longer development going on for Arena or Domination sets.

Mage Wars Arena is dead- no more sets will be released. And no, "Academy" does not count, and I doubt that they'll be releasing more sets in a couple of years time.